Alok Vaid-Menon:

Gender Selfie-Determination

Lecture

Aired On: Sep 29, 2016

Alok Vaid-Menon discusses the stakes of visual representation for trans and gender non-conforming people, drawing from their work as a mixed media performance artist to think through what it means to live and embody outside gender.

Speaker

Alok Vaid-Menon is a non-binary transgender femme writer and performance artist. They have been invited to perform, speak and facilitate at universities, conferences and organizations across the world. Their work, which grapples with themes of gender, race, trauma and belonging, has been featured in various media outlets such as Buzzfeed,HBO, MTV, TEDx, The...